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While NOAA received full funding for its ongoing weather satellite programs, the agency is looking at options after a cut to a program for future polar-orbiting weather satellites. SpaceNews.com

The conditions for habitable exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system might depend on the presence of large moons -- and Earth reveals clues to why.

California is expected to approve a regulation, supported by SpaceX, that spells out how the state will determine the amount of income tax launch companies will be required to pay. SpaceNews.com

Scientists are grappling with the problem of biological cross-contamination between Earth and other worlds --

In-flight connectivity provider Gogo says it has zero interest in owning a satellite or satellites when it can lease capacity at will. SpaceNews.com

The best way to study the atmospheres of distant worlds with the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in late 2018, will combine two of its infrared instruments, according to a team of astronomers.

"A supermassive black hole grows rapidly during these mergers," said NASA's Claudio Ricci, an astrophysicist studying supermassive black holes. "The results further our understanding of the mysterious origins of the rela...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Black holes get a bad rap in popular culture for swallowing everything in their environments. In reality, stars, gas and dust can orbit black holes for long periods of ...

An Eta Aquarid meteor captured on video by astrophotographer Justin Ng shows an amazing explodingred meteor and what is known as a persistent train — what remains of a meteor fireball in the upper atmosphere as winds t...

Have you been following the Springtime parade of bright comets? Thus far, the Oort cloud has offered up several fine binocular comets, including Comet 2/P Encke, 41/P Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak, 45/P Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova...

NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer will perform a landmark 200th spacewalk at the International Space Station Friday, May 12. Live coverage will begin at 6:30 a.m. EDT on NASA Television and t...

Fossil evidence of early life has been discovered by scientists in 3.48 billion year old hot spring deposits in the Pilbara of Western Australia - pushing back by 3 billion years the earliest known existence of inhabited...

After New Horizons’ 2015 encounter with the dwarf planet, researchers are hoping to go back—to stay --

Black holes, quantum mechanics and other big science topics get the bite-size treatment in science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson's new book, "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry."

New research suggests Saturn's rings may last a billion years before fading away -- and Cassini's ring dives will help test the theory.

"Hidden dimensions could cause ripples through reality by modifying gravitational waves - and spotting such signatures of extra dimensions could help solve some of the biggest mysteries of the universe," writes Leah Cran...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have decreased physical fitness because of a decrease in the way oxygen moves through the body, according to a Kansas State University kinesiology study.

The Vatican Observatory reports AP has invited some of the world's leading scientists and cosmologists to talk black holes, gravitational waves and space-time singularities as it honors a Jesuit cosmologist considered on...

A six-year battle over miniature bibles flown by an astronaut to the moon has ended with a state agency ceding its case for the lunar relics.

Figuring out how plasma bubbles and blobs affect one another and ultimately the transmission of communications, GPS, and radar signals in Earth's ionosphere will be the job of a recently selected CubeSat mission.

Sometimes a brown dwarf is actually a planet--or planet-like anyway. A team led by Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné, and including researchers from the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) at Université de Montréal, t...

Thomas Pesquet: Cyprus seems to float on a mirror... the Mediterranean...